What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.

Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.

What fun it would be, " he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

There is but a gentle stillness inside every cerebral. Tiny waterfalls of blood vessels rushing, becoming lethal.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind.

The team is an extension of the coach.

Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.